Adam’s Winners of the Week
This week the winners are the people of Auckland, visitors to the city and New Zealand. Why? Well John Banks and Mike Lee, an unlikely combination, Adam grants – decided to see sense over the folly that is/was Party Central and to scrap plans for a ‘cheap as chips’ iconic building – read nasty architectural monstrosity – to be built for the Roman circus legacy of the Clark regime, aka Rugby World Cup.
A few video screens,beer wagons, chipstalls, a sanitary block and vomit buckets are all that is needed – for Party Central, plus there is the Viaduct Basin.
Then set aside a proper budget and run a proper competition not an ersatz one.
The idea that an icon could be designed, selected and built for RWC on the nonsensical budget allocated was absurd.
By the way memo to Murray McCully, John Key and others concerned with RWC not everyone in NZ wants wall to to wall rugby on TV during the RWC. So let Maori TV have it, they cannot do worse than TVNZ.
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